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1 And after two days was the pascha, and the unleavened loaves: and the chief priests and scribes sought how, having taken him by fraud, they might kill. 2 And they said, Not in the festival, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leprous, he reclining at table, a woman came having an alabaster box of perfumed oil of persuasive, costly, spikenard; and having broken the alabaster box, she poured upon his head. 4 And there were some displeased in themselves, and saying, For what has been the loss of this perfumed oil? 5 For this could have been sold for above three hundred drachmas, and have been given to the poor. And they raged against her. 6 And Jesus said, Let her go; why bestow ye weariness upon her? she has wrought a good work upon me. 7 For always have ye the poor with you, and when ye wish ye can do them good: and me ye have not always. 8 And what she had, she has done: she has undertaken beforehand to perfume my body for the burial. 9 Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news be proclaimed in the whole world, also what she has done shall be spoken for a memorial of her. Mark 14:1-9, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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